The Intertubes R weird: Exhibit B: TNL’s official plan to die

At some point in every guy's life one realizes that we aren't going to live forever. Usually this revelation is followed by dumping your girlfriend/wife, buying some completely frivolous toy (like oh, I don't know a motorcycle) and running off to some Caribbean island with someone 10 years younger than you. Hypothetically speaking, of course… that's not really my life. Not at all. *cough*

Anyway… a midlife crisis is just nature's way of dealing with the unknown because none of us really know when or how we are going to die. But if we could choose our final destinations, if we could pick how we go out; I can't think of a better way that this:

A Russian man died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two female pals.

The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov $4,300 that he wouldn't be able to follow through with the half-day sex marathon.

But minutes after winning the bet, the 28-year-old died of a heart attack, Moscow police said.

"We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do," said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.

Key points: he won the bet and it was with two women. Dying of a massive heart attack after snogging two horny women for 12 hours is tops on TNL's official plan for the end and I can't think of anything that will beat it out at the moment. The fact that this is news proves that men are still in control at the switch at news agencies across the internet.

Now if you'll excuse me, it's a nice day in central PA I'm going to go for a bike ride and then finish packing for my trip to Jamaica in two weeks .

LOI day is here: all rejoice at the choices of 18-year old kids

I once tried to cover recruiting here at TNL at least from a birds-eye perspective but found the task a little daunting and quite frankly, the guys over at BSD do a much better job than me so I gave it up altogether. Having said that, it is national signing day and Christmas for adults if you believe some news services. Really, if you want no better example, look at SportingNews.com's college football home page. It's plastered with all kinds of recruiting stories and if you want exhibit A of why recruiting is so dirty and sleazy to me, look no further than the main picture of undecided WR Marlon Brown on the front page. There's something a little… oh… less than straight about having a website geared toward grown men with a picture of an 18-year old football player with his shirt half off. Just sayin'.

While most articles tend to laud the exploits of Team A's talent or Coach B's recruiting prowess, there is one very interesting article that needs our attention.

Scouting services often miss best recruits

The Associated Press reviewed the top 50 recruits as named by Scout.com and Rivals.com from 2002-04, two services that essentially began as start ups but sold in recent years for tens of millions of dollars.

The AP found that when picking the 10 players with the brightest football futures, the services were right a little more than half the time, based on whether a player started 20 games or more in college, his recognition for awards or whether he made it to the NFL.

When it got to picks 11-50, the services were even more hit and miss.

I've been around for the exponential rise of Scout and Rivals and quite frankly I've always looked at them with a skeptical eye, and don't even get me started on sleezemaster Tom Lemming. At any rate though, Penn State is looking to turn in a very good recruiting class and they still have Linebacker Jelani Jenkins, wide receiver Justin Brown and defensive back Jim Noel on the radar screen. Jenkins is one of the best linebackers in the country (if you believe all the recruiting services) and would make a great exclamation point to this class.

The Intertubes R weird: Exhibit A – The Badger song

I was happily writing my Wisconsin preview and wanted to add the 'Badger, Badger, Badger' song to it so off to YouTube I went. Well, let me just tell you anytime there is a virtual phenomenon like the Badger song there is bound to be copycats and I knew this but good God the Badger song is out of control. There's Weird Al versions, baby Badger versions, and even real life people mimicking the thing. Sooooooo… instead of embedding one badger song in my preview I decided to make a collection of badger songs in a separate post. For the truly bored person, behold: Badgers! –ed. note after watching this you will either hate Wisconsin, me or yourself.

The original


Mutherfuckin' Badgers on a plane


Badgers Transformers


NOW for the REALLY weird stuff – People with too much time and not enough brains.






But the Best of the Worst… seriously people how drunk do you have to be?!?!